Recommendations by Sustainable Development Goal #9
Goal : INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Investments in infrastructure are crucial to achieving sustainable developmen
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economic process
Are solution providers and service providers chosen according to their capability to meet Sustainable IT specifications ?
economic process
Are the physical travel aspects calculated while selecting service providers, technical solutions and the organization of internal actors involved in the project ?
economic process
Do all providers' stakeholders have the same social benefits and working conditions ?
Deployment
Are the workstations subject to lifecycle management ?
Technology
Has a common space been made available to the project for sharing resources ?
Deployment
Do the resources / components available for the project have information regarding Sustainable IT compliance ?
Evolutions
In the technical resources of the project, are management's reliance taken into account, thus limiting the obesity of the technical solutions employed ?
sustainability
In the design choices (functional and technical), does the creation, update or end of life of one digital service domain have a reduced impact on other digital service domains ?
project objectives
Are the implementation of new services due to regulatory constraints (health, banking, etc.) necessary and, if necessary, do they rely on an available service base ?
Production
What are the defined KPIs ?
Methodology
In the brain storming process, are all stakeholders taken into account in their entire (human) dimension ?
Methodology
Is the planet taken into account in the brain storming process, in order to integrate the ecological dimension (planet centric design) ?
Methodology
Are the extra-financial added value of sustainble digital technology valued in the business model ?
Project Resources
Is a sustainable IT process planned at the level of project governance ?
Project Resources
Are Sustainable IT improvements identified and systematically planned ?
Project Resources
For the Sustainable IT aspects, do the project managers (project manager, product owner, etc.) have the same prerogatives as the business aspects ?
Project Resources
Is the deliverables's output (documentary production included) used upstream of the project and is it produced to allow it to be reused in subsequent projects ?
Project Resources
Is a budget on the 3Ps axes associated and monitored during the project ?
Life cycle
Are the environments other than production (DEV, QA, ...) switched off or decommissioned outside the ranges of use (at night, outside the test periods) ?
Sustainable IT Infrastructure
Are methods in place to measure the actual consumption of the code in production and allow accurate sizing ?
Sustainable IT Infrastructure
Is the hosting of applications densified ?
Life cycle
Are unused production environments outside of peak loads turned off or decommissioned ?
Software Design Sustainable IT
Are the definitions of SLA and QoS for each of the functions of the application architecture specified in accordance with the business uses ?
Software Design Sustainable IT
Is the digital service efficient all along its lifespan ?
Life cycle
Have the legal constraints related to data preservation been analyzed and the rules and deadlines for "forgetting it" been specified ?
Sustainable IT Infrastructure
Does the storage strategy keep infrastructure or data duplication to a minimum in relation to its criticality ?
Sustainable IT Infrastructure
Is non-production data anonymized and scaled down to a representative sample of production ?
Life cycle
Is the frequency of data refresh determined in relation to user expectations ?
Purchase Sustainable IT
Are the responsibilities from a GDPR point of view (or local framework in other countries: Privacy Act for example) with service providers clearly defined ?
Life cycle
Is each component deployed qualified from the point of view of its lifespan, and are the deprovisioning procedures systematically expressed ?
Software Design Sustainable IT
Has data frugality been incorporated ?
Software Design Sustainable IT
Does the application minimize the data to be exchanged with other applications or users with the use of a flow matrix ?
Software design
Are the security, accessibility, and Responsible Digital aspects treated in the same way for each element of the architecture ?
Software design
Is the traceability of security requirements guaranteed ?
Quality
Is the documentation of the functionality available to enable its reuse ?
Performance
Is the web server used asynchronous and multi-threaded ?
Performance
Has the dependency tree of the integrated components been evaluated ?
Performance
Can dependencies be reduced by using an alternative component ?
Performance
Is the user informed of a processing in progress in the background ?
Performance
Has the integration of asynchronous processing been evaluated ?
Performance
Are unused resources freed up as quickly as possible ?
Performance
Is a VM necessary as opposed to a container solution ?
Performance
Does service availability require redundancy ?
Architecture
Do interactions between components benefit from caching mechanisms ?
Architecture
Are the browser caches not being blocked by the framework or technology used ?
Architecture
Is there a lighter framework / library that meets the functional need ?
Architecture
Is an Open Source solution available for the functional need ?
security
Are the versions of the components used tracked and deployed ?
security
Is the security implemented justified with regard to the operations carried out ?
Data processing
Is the level of logs adapted to the environment ?
Data processing
Are temporary files included in the "logrotate" ?
Social
Do all of the service provider's employees have social and salary conditions equivalent to those of the data center customer ?
Location
Is the data center located near the main activity ?
Location
Are trips for interventions to the data center possible by public transport or soft mobility ?
Social
Does the data center support the local economic ecosystem ?
Social
Does the material come from companies known to respect the labor code ?
Social
Is the equipment made by environmentally friendly companies ?
Energy
Are the servers and technical equipment certified ?
Systems (software)
Does the supplier display all of its indicators ?
Equipment (hardware)
Is the end-of-life equipment recycled or upcycled (sale / donation / recycling, etc.) ?
Energy
Does the electricity come from renewable energies ?
Energy
Does the datacenter provide reliable information in terms of energy consumption ?
Energy
Is the hosting company transparent about the carbon impact of the infrastructure and its usage for its customers ?
Social
Are the suppliers selected on the basis of their ability to communicate the differentiating indicators ?
Social
Are the legal structure, its subsidiaries and its parent company respectful of regulations and ethics ?
Equipment (hardware)
Is non-critical equipment obtained from reconditioning ?
Equipment (hardware)
Is the equipment repaired rather than replaced ?
Equipment (hardware)
Are servers and routers renewed when technologies allow better energy efficiency ?
Equipment (hardware)
Does the construction / sheath / insulation materials used allow for better energy efficiency. Does the building meet HQE, rt2012 or equivalent standards ?
Equipment (hardware)
What is the impact of data center cooling on the environment ?